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From ACM NewsSamuel Greengard| December 7, 2023
An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
Every city has at least one dangerous intersection where cars, trucks, and buses jostle for space with pedestrians and bicyclists, often resulting in injury, and...Technology Review From ACM News | June 7, 2017
A computer algorithm equipped with a form of artificial curiosity can learn to solve tricky problems even when it isn't immediately clear what actions might help...Technology Review From ACM News | May 23, 2017
Microsoft Research plans to have a DNA-based data storage system functioning within a data center by 2020.
Technology Review From ACM TechNews | May 22, 2017
Electric grids worldwide are increasingly vulnerable to attack as new technologies like smart meters and analytical software are added to them, with mature systems...Technology Review From ACM News | May 18, 2017
As the dust settles from the global ransomware attack that has crippled systems in more than 150 countries since Friday, the U.S. government's shadowy process for...Technology Review From ACM News | May 17, 2017
NVIDIA researchers have developed a neural network for autonomous driving that emphasizes what areas it is focusing on in a video image.
Technology Review From ACM TechNews | May 8, 2017
The Planar Elliptical Runner is a two-legged robot that will help explore how mechanical design can be used to enable sophisticated legged locomotion.
Technology Review From ACM TechNews | May 5, 2017
What looks like a tiny mechanical ostrich chasing after a car is actually a significant leap forward for robot-kind.
Technology Review From ACM News | May 3, 2017
Brown University researchers have developed a robot that measures its own confusion and then asks for help if it thinks it is required.
Technology Review From ACM TechNews | May 1, 2017
Researchers created ScanNet, a new database of three-dimensional images with millions of annotated objects, to help train machines to better understand the physical...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | April 26, 2017
A team of Google researchers by the end of this year plans to build a device that achieves "quantum supremacy."
Technology Review From ACM TechNews | April 25, 2017
Some experts warn deep-learning artificial intelligence technologies cannot be adopted without reservations if their creators cannot understand how they reason....Technology Review From ACM TechNews | April 17, 2017
Researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich in Switzerland have used the fifth-most powerful supercomputer in the world to simulate the behavior...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | April 17, 2017
Last year, a strange self-driving car was released onto the quiet roads of Monmouth County, New Jersey.
Technology Review From ACM News | April 12, 2017
Dance Dance Convolution is a new system that takes as an input the raw audio files of pop songs, and produces dance routines as an output.
Technology Review From ACM TechNews | March 30, 2017
William Kochevar of Cleveland can slowly move his right arm and hand. No big deal—except that the 56-year-old had been paralyzed from the shoulders down since a...Technology Review From ACM News | March 30, 2017
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Technology Review From ACM News | March 28, 2017
Companies are developing and launching machine-learning technologies and applications to enhance the experience of disabled persons.
Technology Review From ACM TechNews | March 27, 2017
Intelligence agents and military operatives may come to rely heavily on machine learning to parse huge quantities of data, and to control a growing arsenal of autonomous...Technology Review From ACM News | March 22, 2017
This month IBM and Google both said they aim to commercialize quantum computers within the next few years (Google specified five), selling access to the exotic...Technology Review From ACM News | March 20, 2017